No, forgiving them for entering illegally by giving them a visa and allowing them to stay and work. They can work their way to green card and citizenship like the rest of the immigrants.
Are you kidding me? As smart as Zyp's post is, this is simply beyond stupidity.
#1, you have massive numbers of poor people all over the country - philly, new orleans, etc,. that cannot find work. If I was poor and black and unable to find a job, any job that pays a salary - which is the case for most of the black population in this nation - I'd start shooting ANY politician that supported allowing immigrants of any kind in, illegal or not. Its the poor blacks in this country who've born the burden of illegal alien and much-too-high legal immigration for far too long - the very people that the so-called liberals once defended.
#2- clearly you like most of the fake liberal/internet teens here weren't even born yet when people like me were out protesting the tragic Reagan '86 amnesty bill, which of course only acted like a magnet to draw in millions more illegals - just as every honest adult back then knew it would.
Rewarding criminal behaviour accomplishes one thing only - MORE of the same.
All illegals should be deported immediately, and all employers found to be hiring them should be fined $10,000 each. If some industries try to get around this by moving production offshore, tax the shyte out of them to make up for the difference in lower wages paid.
This will eventually, through a massive increase in prices, force companies to start increasing the typical salaries paid to the general employed staff - not just to the top executives making 950 times what the average employee makes.
Given that the vast majority of the middle class has not had a wage increase in decades - this would be the first step towards balancing wages overall. No more BS $60 million paydays for CEOs...